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VICTORIA -- A glut of empty condos in British Columbia should not be seen as evidence that the market is working, said a housing expert who warned against winding back policies of the outgoing NDP government designed to tame prices and rent.
VICTORIA -- British Columbia's incoming premier says he doesn't see a quick end to the trade war with the United States despite significant election losses by Republicans under President Donald Trump.
VICTORIA -- A housing expert says the current glut of empty condos in British Columbia should not be seen as evidence that the housing market is working, and she warns against repealing key parts of the out-going NDP government's housing legislation.
VICTORIA -- The Conservative Party of B.C. raised almost three times the donations as the New Democrats during the third quarter of 2026, despite experiencing internal turmoil at the time.
British Columbia premier-designate Lorne Doerkson says the Conservative caucus of 63 legislators is united to lead the province but he warns of difficult and unpopular decisions ahead. Doerkson made the comments as newly elected Conservatives gathered for their first caucus meeting, where he told them that the campaign is over and their job now is to govern on behalf of...
VICTORIA -- British Columbia premier-designate Lorne Doerkson said the Conservative caucus of 63 legislators is united to lead the province but he also warned of difficult and unpopular decisions ahead.
VICTORIA -- Former New Democrat housing minister Ravi Kahlon says his priority is his family after opting not to run in the snap election that toppled his party's government -- but he is not closing the door on politics.
Former minister Jennifer Whiteside has been named the interim leader of the BC NDP after the party's crushing defeat in last weekend's election. Whiteside is the outgoing labour minister and previously served as minister of education, and minister of mental health and addictions. She represents the riding of New Westminster-Coquitlam.
VICTORIA -- Former minister Jennifer Whiteside has been named the interim leader of the BC NDP after the party's crushing defeat in last weekend's election.
VICTORIA -- Former minister Jennifer Whiteside has been named the interim leader of the BC NDP after the party's defeat in last weekend's election.
A former adviser to John Horgan says the next leader of the BC NDP will face a "reputational challenge" of proving the party can be trusted with taxpayers' money, something he says the late former premier established with a $5.7 billion surplus when he left office in 2022.
VICTORIA -- British Columbia's snap election on Saturday was held a day after a dozen legislators crossed the threshold for a full pension, including four NDP MLAs who lost their ridings or did not run.
With two-thirds of the seats in the next legislature, the B.C. Conservatives may have a resounding mandate to follow through on their election promises to cut taxes, reduce the deficit and grow the economy at 3.2 per cent -- but some economists say the challenge will be doing it all at once. Cutting tax and simultaneously fixing the budget "are...
VICTORIA -- With two-thirds of the seats in the next legislature, the B.C. Conservatives may have a resounding mandate to follow through on their election promises to cut taxes, reduce the deficit and grow the economy at 3.2 per cent -- but some economists say the challenge will be doing it all at once.
VICTORIA -- The lawyer for the Cowichan Tribes says they will make a proposal in January that protects private property rights in the landmark Aboriginal title case that the B.C. Conservatives have said calls into question who controls British Columbia.
VANCOUVER -- British Columbia's premier-designate Lorne Doerkson's long to-do list includes lowering taxes, while reviewing the provincial finances, working with Alberta and the federal government on the proposed Pacific Link pipeline and repealing Indigenous legislation.
VANCOUVER -- Premier-designate Lorne Doerkson is wasting no time after his Conservatives swept into power last night in British Columbia, announcing a former deputy to the premier to lead his transition team.
VANCOUVER -- The Canadian Press decision desk is projecting that British Columbia NDP Leader David Eby has been re-elected in his riding of Vancouver-Point Grey, but his party has lost the election to the B.C. Conservative Party.
Just over five weeks ago, Lorne Doerkson was an obscure British Columbia legislator whose party was falling apart at the seams. He is now set to become premier at the head of a majority government, soundly defeating the New Democrats in Saturday's snap election that backfired spectacularly on outgoing Premier David Eby, who announced his resignation as NDP leader. It...
VANCOUVER -- NDP Leader David Eby says interim B.C. Conservative leader Lorne Doerkson is a cover for extremists in his party who could oust him if he is elected premier, as campaigning wraps up ahead of Saturday's provincial vote.
VANCOUVER -- British Columbia NDP Leader David Eby campaigns in Vancouver and Richmond today after wrapping his swing through the vote-rich city of Surrey with a rally.
The British Columbia Conservatives say their election platform amounts to restraint, not austerity, and will create $2.6 billion in new revenue over three years, while shrinking the deficit to $10.8 billion by 2030.
VANCOUVER -- The British Columbia Conservatives say their platform will create $2.6 billion in new revenue over three years, while shrinking the deficit to $10.8 billion by 2030.
VICTORIA -- British Columbia NDP Leader David Eby is appealing to Green voters as the snap election slated for Oct. 24 enters its final week, but Green Party Leader Emily Lowan says he is trying to scare voters into choosing him.
British Columbia NDP Leader David Eby is appealing to Green voters as the snap election slated for Oct. 24 enters its final week, but Green Party Leader Emily Lowan says he is trying to scare voters into choosing him. Eby said Green voters should think carefully about their choices, as they prepare to cast their ballots. While he respects Lowan...
VICTORIA -- British Columbia NDP Leader David Eby is appealing to Green voters as the snap election slated for Oct. 24 enters its final week.
VICTORIA -- Jim Leard had just cast his ballot for Emily Lowan on Friday when he ran into the British Columbia Green Party leader outside a high school in Greater Victoria.
VICTORIA -- Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, a longtime British Columbia NDP ally whose late wife was a legislator for the party, has thrown his support behind Green Party Leader Emily Lowan in her bid to win in her Vancouver Island riding.
VICTORIA -- The British Columbia Conservatives have dumped a teenage candidate in the provincial election after he was accused of posting "offensive" remarks online about the Holocaust and Hitler.
The British Columbia Conservatives have dumped a teenage candidate in the provincial election after he was accused of posting "offensive" online remarks about Hitler and the Holocaust. The party said Thursday that Vancouver-Strathcona candidate Jordan McIntosh was no longer a Conservative candidate and if elected he would not sit in the caucus. The Conservatives announced his removal from the slate...
VICTORIA -- British Columbia NDP Leader David Eby is defending draft plans by his previous government to limit the compensation of forest companies when land is transferred to First Nations.
British Columbia NDP Leader David Eby repeatedly acknowledged his government's imperfections in a debate where his B.C. Conservative and Green Party rivals railed against his record on the economy, health care and Indigenous rights. "Look, I'm not perfect, but I will always act in the best interests of British Columbians, and that's my commitment to you and your family," he...
British Columbia NDP Leader David Eby repeatedly acknowledged his government's imperfections in a debate where his B.C. Conservative and Green Party rivals railed against his record on the economy, health care and Indigenous rights.
VICTORIA -- The BC Lumber Trade Council says Canadian softwood lumber now faces total import taxes of almost 35 per cent after the latest review from the U.S. Department of Commerce.
VICTORIA -- Politics, like curling, is all about geometry.
The leaders of the two major parties running in British Columbia's election pitched business leaders with infrastructure commitments, including a new shipyard and promises of tax cuts.
The leaders of the two major parties running in British Columbia's election pitched business leaders with infrastructure commitments, including a new shipyard and promises of tax cuts.
British Columbia NDP Leader David Eby says he and his wife donated the difference in costs after their children's daycare fell under the $10-a day program a couple years ago, but he declined to specify the amount. Eby says he and wife Cailey Lynch, a doctor, didn't need the daycare discount that has only reached a minority of parents in...
The cost of childcare in British Columbia and questions about who deserves a subsidy program dominated the provincial election campaign Tuesday as the provincial Conservatives accused NDP Leader David Eby of dodging questions about his family's use of $10-a-day childcare.
The NDP's election campaign in British Columbia has moved on from the threat of Donald Trump's tariffs to focus on affordability issues. When NDP Leader David Eby called the snap election on Sept. 22, he said British Columbia needed a "firebreak" against Trump's economic attacks and Trump-style politics, which he said were threatening to infect the province. But Eby says...
VICTORIA -- The NDP's election campaign in British Columbia has moved on from the threat of Donald Trump's tariffs to focus on affordability issues.
The British Columbia Conservatives plan to repeal the province's no-fault auto insurance system, in a major policy proposal revealed by a leaked letter from the party's interim leader to lawyers and insurance executives. Lorne Doerkson says in the letter that if elected on Oct. 24, the Conservatives would bring in legislation to restore accident victims' rights to sue, under a...
VICTORIA -- The future of no-fault auto insurance was a key focus in British Columbia's election campaign Tuesday as the two major party leaders accused the other of neglecting drivers.
Political party OneBC says former Conservative legislator Brent Chapman and his wife, Kerry-Lynne Findlay, have been subjected to a "torrent of threats and abuse from insiders." Chapman announced last month that he was joining OneBC to run as a candidate in the Oct. 24 election after Findlay resigned as the Conservative party leader amid a caucus revolt. But Chapman's name...
VICTORIA -- A date has been set for the only live and televised leaders' debate in the British Columbia provincial election.
VICTORIA -- Political party OneBC says former Conservative legislator Brent Chapman and his wife, Kerry-Lynne Findlay, have been subjected to a "torrent of threats and abuse from insiders."
VICTORIA -- British Columbia's election campaign stepped on the slippery ice of health-care policy and how to pay for it Monday as leaders offered numerous promises, including a plan to restart projects that had been paused by the former NDP government.
VICTORIA -- Health care and taxes dominate the British Columbia election campaign, with the Conservatives criticizing the NDP's record, while the Greens panned a New Democrat taxation plan.
British Columbia NDP Leader David Eby says his party will introduce a new tax bracket for those who earn $1 million or more to help pay for health care, if re-elected. The leader made the announcement Sunday, while campaigning in Comox on Vancouver Island, after he toured ridings in southern British Columbia ahead of the Oct. 24 election day. Eby...
British Columbia NDP Leader David Eby said his party would introduce a new tax bracket for those who earn $1 million or more and raise the existing rates of the two highest brackets to help pay for health care, if re-elected.
VICTORIA -- The field of candidates running in British Columbia's snap election is set after the office overseeing elections released the final list of candidates.
VICTORIA -- The office overseeing elections in British Columbia says the provincial NDP under Leader David Eby is not running candidates in all 93 ridings.
VICTORIA -- Promises to lower the cost of gasoline from B.C. New Democrat Leader David Eby, and praise for a planned pipeline from Conservative interim leader Lorne Doerkson fuelled British Columbia's snap election campaign on Thursday.
Promises to lower the cost of gasoline from B.C. New Democrat Leader David Eby, and praise for a planned pipeline from Conservative interim leader Lorne Doerkson fuelled British Columbia's snap election campaign on Thursday. Eby's platform for relief at the gas pumps comes in two parts: a temporary reduction of the provincial motor fuel tax by 10 cents per litre...
VICTORIA -- British Columbia NDP Leader David Eby is promising relief at the gas pumps under a re-elected government, and he has a plan to crack down on corporate price gouging.
VICTORIA -- The major parties running in British Columbia's election appear to be on track to fill each of the 93 ridings, but smaller parties are struggling ahead of the Oct. 3 nomination deadline.
Prime Minister Mark Carney stepped onto a chair Tuesday at a photo opportunity after a multibillion-dollar LNG announcement and came eye-to-eye with the six-foot-seven-inch David Eby, making both leaders laugh. But it's the British Columbia NDP leader's election campaign that got a boost with the announcement of the $33-billion Phase 2 expansion of LNG Canada's liquefied natural gas export terminal...
Prime Minister Mark Carney stepped onto a chair Tuesday at a photo opportunity after a multibillion-dollar LNG announcement and came eye-to-eye with the six-foot-seven-inch David Eby, making both leaders laugh.
A high-profile legislator who says she was "threatened, spat at, disowned, and abused" for crossing the floor to the British Columbia NDP this summer won't be running again in the provincial election. Amelia Boultbee, who was first elected as a B.C. Conservative, says in a statement she can't marshal the necessary resources to give the B.C. New Democrats a "fair...
VICTORIA -- A high-profile legislator who says she was "threatened, spat at, disowned, and abused" for crossing the floor to the British Columbia NDP this summer won't be running again in the provincial election.